The body of at least one victim of a construction accident was left behind in the collapsed pylon, buried under tons of concrete.

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

The oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe survived Hitler's Germany.

It's good luck to be mocked by this monkey.

Harlem park dedicated to compulsive hoarders killed by their own junk.

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

The castle where Martin Luther secretly translated the New Testament from Greek to German while in hiding.

Eight naturally mummified bodies in glass coffins are housed in an underground crypt.

A taxidermied stork with an arrow through its neck proved that birds migrate.

These jeweled relics have a scandalous and contested past.

A two-inch thick solid brass rod that extends an astounding one kilometer straight into the earth.

A small concrete monument remembers a German cold case involving incest, farm tools, and psychics.

The "feral child" who appeared in Bavaria in the 19th century remains as much a mystery as his unsolved murder.

Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.

The name doubles as an appropriate adjective for this small ossuary.

Behold, a collection dedicated to Germany's favorite vegetable.

This Rococo church is known as the most beautiful village church in the world, and does not disappoint.

The small alleys in Lübeck's Old Town are a result of medieval urban sprawl.

The Suurhusen church tower in Germany leans over farther than the famous Leaning Tower of Pisa.

Amöneburg is a town perched on top of a basalt mountain in the middle of an ancient meteor crater.

Take a walk in a recreation of ancient Rome.

Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.

The natural mummy of the less than chivalrous Knight Kahlbutz.

A rare example of a German cemetery with traditional grave markers dating back several generations.